Microworlds

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This Unit Summary identifies the location in the Microworlds unit where particular enhancements would fit. These enhancements were written by the SPS PSEP team members to be utilized in their classrooms during the academic year ’15-’16. NOTE: The Optimizing Vinegar Eels Observation ED Enhancement is meant to be performed once EITHER after Lesson 11 OR with Lesson 14.
Microworlds Unit Summary
Lesson #
 Lesson Name
 Enhancements
1
 Observing a Penny
2
 Communicating Observations
3
 Learning about Lenses
3.5
 Water Drops and Magnification
 To be done AFTER Lesson 3.5

Water Drops and Magnification - CER Enhancement
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4
 Looking through a Lens
 To be done AFTER Lesson 4

Making a Microscope - Engineering Enhancement
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5
 Learning to use a Microscope
6
 Practicing with a Microscope
 Optional
7
 Field of View
(Seeing More with Less)
 Optional
8
 Preparing Slides
 To be done AFTER Lesson 8

Optimizing Microscopes - Engineering Enhancement
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9
 What is it?
 To be done AFTER Lesson 9

What is it? - CER Enhancement
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10
 Exploring Common Objects
11.1
 Looking Inside an Onion
 To be done AFTER this lesson to build
schema and experience for using slides

Optimizing Vinegar Eel Observation - Engineering Enhancement
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11.2
 Controlled Experiment
11.3
 Making a Model of a Cell
11.4
 Observing Elodea
12-14
 Looking at Living Things
 To save time, you can look at all 3 organisms in 1 day.

To be done WITH Lesson 14 as enrichment
and/or summative assessment
Optimizing Vinegar Eel Observation - Engineering Enhancement
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To be done AFTER Lesson 14
Is it Alive? - CER Enhancement
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15
 Looking at Living Things:
Hay Infusion
16
 A Student Planned Experiment
 OMIT this lesson
Group Members:
Tamara Alston, Julie Childers, Susie Henderson, Visala Hohlbein, Joe Kunkel, Ross Nadal, Angie Nall, Gretchen Salter, Sandy Smith-Kennewick, Heather St. John, Onny Tabares, Marcia Ventura